In case anyone is still around this blog I thought I'd share with you my new blog, come check me out on The Happier Homemaker. On my new blog I share bout my family, Do It Yourself Projects, recipes, basically anything that fills my days!

Thank you for all of the well wishes, if you want to see what I'm currently working on please see my Etsy shop or my new painting blog where I'm showing my oil paintings. I will continue to update my for sale list as items are sold.

So I thought that I would get back to stamping after we got settled from our move but it just hasn't happened for me. I have tried time and again to carve out a space in my home for my stamping supplies but my heart just isn't in it anymore. Its time for me to let go of my supplies so I'll be listing them for sale here. Hopefully they can make another stamper happy! Paypal only (unless you're loacl to Fayetteville, NC) all prices are WITHOUT shipping-if you're interested email me at saucystampin at yahoo dot com and I'll let you know how much it would be to ship. Thanks guys!

Oh, And I'll be keeping my blog up and running and my YouTube channel so don't worry about it disappearing anytime soon! I did a lot of work on those videos and tutorials and want to keep them out there for everyone.

I just wanted to let you know that I am still around! A recent move and the upcoming deployment of my husband has made it necessary for me to take a break for stamping for a while. I am no longer a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator and will be taking an indefinite leave of posting new stamping projects but rest assured that I am still available for questions on any of my past projects and my tutorials are still available for purchase and will be emailed to you within 24 hours of Paypal payment.

My last project I entered for Artisan Award to share with you all, a name frame for my neice Ruby. The chipboard letters are covered in patterned DSP. I scrunched the ribbon. The beads were hand threaded to line the interior of the frame.

Another card for Artisan Award, I really liked this one too! This was my final entry I completed. The dragonfly's wings are double layered and loose to be flapped up. The cloud inthe background is popped up with dimensionals. Inside I made a little hill of grass using the 3D Pop Up Cake Die.

This was a more Clean and Simple card design for Artisan Award, but I still added a lot of detailing.

The watercolored image is layered for depth. The edges of the paper is distressed. I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to place the sentiment from Herb expressions, the same sentiment peeks out from the under-layer of Old Olive. The center of the flowers, top and bottom rim of the pot, and ladybug are all layered for depth.

This was the first project I made for Artisan Award and I loved it, I really thought it was unlike anything I had seen before and I was very proud of it. It took me about 4 hours to make this card. i cut up cardstock into many tiny pieces and hand glued them, placing them with tweezers, to create a mosaic look of a cherry blossom tree. After all the pieces were in place I covered the entire image with Crystal Effects so it was glossy like glass.

I truly loved this project I made for Artisan Award, its a baby mini scrapbook. The pages have headings with room for pictures and journalling. Luckily for me I made two so I could keep one! The chipboard 'b' is covered in silver microbeads. The banner off to the side says "is for baby"

I photographed all the pages but here are just a few, first bath and 3 months:

"Look Who's Crawling" and "First Words" "First Steps" and a bitty envelope to hold the "First Curl" Baby's First Birthday:

So here is my second Scrapbook page entry for Artisan Award. I have two sons but wanted to do a girl page so I used a close up of one of my son's feet just after he was born and made a page for my imaginary daughter! Hey, a girl needs some pink sometimes!

Well, I can't way I'm not bummed because I didn't win Artisan Award (a contest for Stampin' Up! Demonstrators) but it is nice to finally be able to share the projects I worked so hard on. I made 3 scrapbook pages, 5 cards, and 2 3D projects for the contest and I will be featuring one each day for the next 10 days so please check back daily to see them. (And a comment to stroke my bruised ego would be much appreciated too!!)

Here is my first share, an 8.5 by 11 scrapbook page of my son.

Its hard to see but the background is stamped in Versamark with the dotted swirl Treetop from Trendy Trees.

Some of the other "Almost Artisans" will be posting their projects on their blogs too-go check them out and leave a comment!

Here's another Sneak Peek at new Summer Mini products! This card features the new Island Oasis Designer Series Paper, Bouquet Bunch Stamp Set, and I used the Chat Room Rub-ons from the Occasions Mini Catalog (only available until April 30!)